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Jo Harrop in Gateshead (see below). Photo Ken Drew courtesy of Lance Liddle Wednesday 2 October – Pete Bernstein / Jim Mullen are at the 606 Wednesday 2 October – Alexander Hawkins / Marco Colonna are ...

The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Ropeadope’s CEO, Louis Marks, and president, Fabian Brown. The pair are ringing in the anniversary of this multifarious label with ...

Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg – Musho(Intakt Records CD420, album review by Frank Graham) At this point in his career, Oxford-born pianist, organist and composer Alexander Hawkins really needs ...

The news of the death of guitarist Russell Malone on Friday 23 August 2024, at the age of just 60, comes as a totally unexpected shock. Fellow guitarist David O’Rourke remembers a friend – and one of ...

Elina Duni and Rob Luft (and Corrie Dick/ Jamie McCredie) were among the headliners at Herne Bay Festival last weekend, and the entire pier-end programme is on the Festival’s YouTube channel ...

Polish jazz writer Krzysztof Komorek came from Łódź to London to attend and review the Emma Rawicz residency at Pizza Express Jazz Club for the site Donos Kulturalny. Krzysztof Komorek writes: Where ...

“You think you can outlast the E Street Band?!”, Bruce Springsteen asks incredulously, some three hours and five minutes into the first of two massive shows at ...

It’s the middle of July, and the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival comes around again: ten days crammed with interesting music – so much so that the inevitable clashes mean hard choices have to be ...

The most-shared Jazz meme of the week is (jazz fan / former SF Jazz Board Member /mother of Cole – after Coltrane – and Ella) Kamala Harris with newly-bought vinyl outside a record store from May 2023 ...

Louis Stewart- Out On His Own (Livia Records. Album review by Adam Sieff) There’s no doubt that Louis Stewart (1944-2016) ranks among the finest jazz guitar players, just ask one and they’ll […] ...

Staples Jr Singers – Searching(Luaka Bop. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Back in the 1970s, around five years after they started performing, a group of young siblings from Aberdeen, Mississippi, known ...